Tag: darkness

Throwing chemicals, fire, and scratching emulsion are just a few ways of experimenting with film. But there's another process that completely destroys it (or, if you're lucky, creates something amazing), that is as spastic as a drunken man staggering his way home after a night at the pub - literally.
And it all comes down to darkness.

Seeing is believing! I love taking out my Diana duo, the F+ and the Mini, but I was having trouble seeing my focus arrow in the dark. Time after time, the sun would go down and the night's darkness was upon me. I couldn't focus, I had to fix this!

These aren't sketches using graphite pencils or images by day that have been reversed in color. They are long exposures done in the night by advertizing photographer Michael Schnabel. The lines of the jagged rock formations, the stillness of lakes, and the powdery quality of the snow are hyper detailed. It takes a master of light to master the darkness.

Picture this: A rainy Sunday afternoon, a train ticket, a camera, several rolls of film and an idea that might sound rather strange, but deeply inspired by some thoughts on photography – Just another normal day in the life of Lisa.

Once a good friend of mine told me about an old tunnel somewhere in the mountains near the place I live. It is some kind of secret which everybody knows but nobody could tell where exactly you can find this tunnel. But Ronald found out where the entrance is and where the tunnel leads you to – he’s an adventurer with heart and sole.

If you want to see an eerie place you have to go into the woods of Haiming, a little village near where I live, when dusk rises. Most of the trees there are gnarly pines which used to look like bad monsters in the growing dark – if you have a little bit of fantasy and imagination.